It was that they wanted to get republicans elected.

The “old guard” was going to move the national headquarters from DC to Colorado so they could make a compound with shooting ranges to give classes and shit

The “new guard” that staged the revolution canceled that, and sunk that money into lobbying and that’s been their primary expenditure pretty much ever since.

It’s always stunk to me as a Republican backed strategy to set up an intermediary for donation washing back when we still had campaign finance laws.

Like, shit was the same time as Watergate, shady shit was happening all over and it’s not like everything came to light.

The NRA has been waning for a long time. Their member count is only so high be cause for a lot of the big gun shows, it’s free if you’re NRA. And an annual membership is sold onsite and costs less than one time entrance fee.

Their money is largely coming from large donations more to get republicans elected than anything about guns.

The inflated membership numbers is just smoke so they can maintain an air of legitimacy.

Lots of older people act like the “takeover” in the 70s never happened. Before that the NRA was mostly about hunting and argued against CCW. It’s actually pretty interesting how it all went down, and something relatively minor changed American politics for generations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_at_Cincinnati

You don’t start a career as a CEO.

But they often start as “executives” which is a huge problem.

Very few modern CEOs have ever actually worked a day in their lives. They move around between various different industries with no knowledge of what’s important.

Their only concern is making stock price go up over a short timeframe

Because that makes any statement meaningless…

Just figured I’d answer first

You’re allowed to say you disagree with people transitioning.

That is your opinion, it’s terrible and makes you look like a terrible person, but you can have that opinion and deal with the fall out for telling people you hold it.

Saying what you did, can be construed as you disagreeing with them existing.

It being legally permissable doesn’t mean that it happens

Have you ever thought about what a great investment a bridge is?

There’s one a Brooklyn you may be interested in purchasing.

In fact, the US is pretty unique in terms of how much influence voters have over the process.

How?

The primaries are non binding and can be legally rigged because of that…

Republican and moderate Dem politicians support the genocide, because Israel pays some people to support them, and pays for the campaigns of some people who already support them.

The American people largely dont support Israel’s actions, we just don’t get a say in our government anymore thanks to money in politics and primaries not being binding elections and open to manipulation.

presidential party primary

There was an autocorrect there, but if that doesn’t clear it up:

A primary isn’t binding.

That was the DNCs legal argument for why if they rigged it, that would be legal.

The entire primary process is merely a survey.

We have to face that loads of high ranking “moderate” Dems would prefer a Republican to a progressive.

If a Republican gets in office, it makes it easier to get people vote lesser of two evils.

If a progressive gets in office, it’s really hard to unseat them. They can barely manage to get House Reps out for moderates even with AIPAC money.

If Bernie had won 2016, he’d have gotten to name the DNC chair, he could of solidly ended in the failed neo liberal experiment.

We were really fucking close to fixing things, but after NH got their delegates stolen, I don’t think itll happen.

I honestly think if a real progressive wins a presidential party primary, the standing party might disregard it.

We should be fighting as hard as we can to get money out of politics…

But Arnold in his prime only weighed 240 lbs.

That can’t be right.

That might be his cut weight for bodybuilding, but in his acting days (what people think of) he had to have been more.

People just assume if you can walk up to a wild animal, it’s tame.

To a bison, killing a human is like swatting a fly. Well, easier than swatting a fly. We’re a bigger target

We’re not a threat, we’re not food, we’re just a potential annoyance. Dumb enough to get close to a calf, and then you’re really fucked. It’s like picking a bare knuckle fight with a wrecking ball.

Did you mean to post to /noonedownvoteme instead?

Like, people answered yout question, what more did you want? A gold star?

We need money out of politics, but it’s not going to happen because moderates Dems and Republicans both take advantage of it.

We won’t be able to fix it till progressives are the majority, and we’re having difficulty because dirty money goes into primaries too where it’s even more impactful.

If you bring in lots of money (shady was doesn’t matter) you get leadership positions.

That’s why Jaime Harrison is is running the DNC despite not knowing how to win an election.

The system is built around money, not votes.

We’re going to see both their numbers go nuts here in a couple weeks.

The dark money waits until it’s too late to get tracked down before the election.

The sad truth is there’s more ways around donation limits than there are around federal background checks for guns.

There’s effectively zero limit if you put a little bit of planning into it.

Yeah, the basement is going to be colder…

You can circulate the air if you want to balance it out, but the basement is going to get colder again.

If you’re talking about saving energy:

At about 3pm circulate the air. That’s a little before your AC is going to start experiencing it’s highest workload.

At around 6pm or when ever, stop.

Try it for a couple of days with just a fan. If it’s a noticeable difference and you like it, you can get a vent installed that pushes up from the basement, and another somewhere else that just goes straight to the basement. You can put the fan/blower on a timer. I’d recommend one of those “smart plug” things, they work as a timer and you can also controll locally from your phone.

But if you’re circulating air 24/7, it’s just making your AC cool even more air.

So you just want to use it to dump a bunch of cold air when you need it most, and then let it naturally cool down the rest of the nigh/day.

Whether or not this adds up to more than negligible benefits for energy use…

I have zero idea.

But it’s essentially just an inefficient heat pump. The theory behind it is sound.

I’m not trying to pick a fight, and I know I’m probably coming off like a dick.

But it’s not just for your benefit, you’re downplaying a serious danger and victim blaming. This can happen to anyone at an unmarked beach, which is why government agencies monitoring this shit is important.

You can go do what you want. But don’t make people feel like it’s not a big deal.

Especially when the Gulf has weaker rips than every other coastline in North America, because it’s a gulf.

It’s like me saying no one has to worry about drowning because I only swim in kiddie pools. When the whole ocean is behind a rip it’s entirely different. There are still rips, and people do die from them in the Gulf. But they’re just not as strong as elsewhere. And part of the reason people die there, is they don’t take them serious.

There is zero reliable ways to tell if there’s a rip from the beach…

The danger is under the waves, if there isn’t proper signage you won’t know until it’s probably too late. And everyone is different. The teens were able to swim to safety, the parents weren’t.

If you recognize you’re in a rip current, what you can try to do is swim parrell to the shore and then try to come in. It’s dangerous because the rip can’t be overcome by swimming directly in, you have to go around it.

But even if you know that, you might not remember, and it might not help.

The people that often die from this, are overconfident people like you who think it can’t happen to them because they’re smart.